I never had any idea that people were so sensitive and defensive about this. Especially strange are those who say that you can go a number of directions to get to different parts of Boston Harbor. I think you can safely assume that he isn’t looking for the dirty backwater areas but the touristy ones with tourboats and ice cream shops. Just a guess.
There’s nothing wrong with saying “Turn right, but you want to ask someone else before you get too far, because I don’t know the street names and some of them are dead ends.” Seriously, you live in a coastal city and don’t know where the ocean is?
Last I checked, Boston Harbor is an actual place filled with water.
It was a basic, simple question.
And yes, I understand he may have no legs and his wheelchair got stolen. Or he was driving a tank and needed extra-wide roads to navigate. Or a place to land his helicopter.
Every possible contingency must be accounted for in every question, I know.
We don’t know where he was. If he was in the middle of the North end then four blocks north would bring him to one portion of the harbor. Four blocks the east would bring him to a completely different portion, four block south would bring him to yet a different section
If he was at Quincy Market, North East would send him towards Columbus Park and South East Would Send him towards the Aquarium.
If he was in the financial district, go North to get to the Aquarium, go East to get to the Bank Boston Pavillian and Harpoon Brewery area.
All within walking distance. There are portions of the harbor that going eight blocks would get him pretty close to the Theater Disctrict.
Seriously, Pull up a map and see how Boston and Boston Harbor wrap around each other. It is a rather large body of water that the Charles River and Mystic River both feed into pretty close to each other.
That’s why people that live here are able to tell better than the people telling the residents that what we’re saying is wrong. :smack: